SABC favouring ANC: opposition

Cape Town 100522 COPE president, Mosiuoa Lekota adresses a group of COPE supporters who refused to attend the proincial congress at Langa Community Centre. Picture: Gareth Smit

Johannesburg - Opposition parties will approach the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) about what they perceive as the SABC's preference for the ANC, Cope said on Monday.

“This past weekend we witnessed disproportionately huge coverage of ANC events on SABC platforms, including radio and TV channels, while opposition parties receive coverage so minuscule that if you blink, you could easily miss it altogether,” party president Mosiuoa Lekota said.

The Congress of the People and other parties were seeking legal advice and had approached Icasa to end such “one-sided storytelling”, he said.